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Remove Filter  | My yellow VW Beetle is 10 years old. It does very well out here in the desert.  |
| | Just an accumulation of worldly wisdom in question answer format. Q: "How Do You Get Holy Water?" A: "You Boil The Hell Out Of It." |
| | I am sitting in front of a brandnew 27 inch Apple Macintosh running on OS X Yosemite, trying to compile a timed insertion sort from my Windows days. The Xcode app is a sweatheart, but there are some Windows things in the code that cause a problem. This line ... … |
| | I thought it would be fun to code all the different ways to show Hello World on the display. Let's start simple ... `print("Hello World")` Can anybody print out "Hello World" vertically?  |
| | Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive are all available to try for free (with limited storage). So far I have used Dropbox and OneDrieve and like Dropbox since it handles better on the PC and my iPad. OneDrive is improving and I have used iCloud on my iPad mostly for …  |
| | The idea of this thread is to help the beginning wxPython GUI programmer with hints and helpful code. Please feel free to contribute! If you have any questions start your own thread! For info on wxPython modules see: http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx-module.html  |
| | The portable version of Python (versions 2.7 and 3.2 are available) can be run from your hard drive or a flash drive. In many ways this makes your live easier, since a lot of libraries are included already. Also, you can take your code to a friend on a flash …  |
| | [B]Intro[/B] C is using structures to group data, mostly data that belongs together. Here we have some data that a campaign manager might keep for the volunteers. First we take a look at the C code: [code=c]#include <stdio.h> struct person { char *name; char *sex; char *slogan; }; int main(void) … |
| | I am still trying to take a look at the gtk GUI package and reinstalled the following: gtk-win32-devel-2.8.6-rc3.exe and pygtk-2.8.2-1.win32-py2.4.exe (updated version) I have it down to a simpler error message now. Here are my warnings and errors with the sample file base.py [code]Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:/Python24/Atest/Demo/pyGTK/base.py", … |
| | There is also "1001 ways to spam for liquid roofs" or similar title. |
| | This post by [B]s7plc[/B] was moved from the Starting wxPython (GUI code) thread ... [QUOTE]I've been working with various widgets from the wxPython demo library, and am making pretty good progress. But I just ran into a problem that I am sure has a simple answer, but I just can't … |
| | I keep hearing that Python is about as slow as Java. Does anybody have experience with speeding things up?  |
| | This was a comment from ee_programmer in reference to one of the Python code snippets. [code=python]""" I was expecting the first class instance to only have one dictionary entry {'person0': 0} rather than two dictionary entries. Similar expectation with second class instance. How do I create and assign value to … |
| | sharky_machine Offline Posting Whiz in Training Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 253 Rep Power: Re: Starting Python Today, 1:41 pm | Add to sharky_machine's Reputation | Add Infraction | Flag Bad Post | IP | #86 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vegaseat: I have been reviewing this code you had …  |
| | In case you are curious, I just posted a new tutorial "Python and Multimedia, Part 1, The amazing Webbrowser Module" on DaniWeb at: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/tutorials/tutorial47392.html[/url] I would love some input from our Linux and Unix friends to see how much cross platform the module is. Post any comments in this thread! |
| | The DaniWeb community is pretty worldly, so I though it would be interesting to post the price of beer in your local pub. Be somewhat informative: Here in the state of Nevada I like to go to Barley's Casino and Brewing Company. A pitcher (60 ounces) of Red Rock lager …  |
| | Does anybody know the limit of nested for loops in C or C++? If there is a limit, what is the reason?  |
| | [B]Intro[/B] In part 1 we learned mostly about the header of the JPEG file. In this part we get to display the image and also extract and show any embedded comments. [B]wxPython[/B] To display the image we use wxPython. The raw JPEG image information is first pushed into a data … |
| | [B]Python and the JPEG Image File, Part 1, The Header[/B] [B]Intro[/B] The JPEG image file format (.jpg) is very popular on the internet because you can pack a lot of picture information into a relatively small file. There are competing file formats like GIF and PNG. GIF is rather limited … |
| | [B]Intro[/B] When you declare an integer variable in C, the variable is assigned a fixed memory location with enough space to hold the type integer. When you then initialize the variable with a value, the value is put into that space. Take a look at the C code sample below: … |
| | Does anybody know the weight of a grain of rice? I am into Ethiopian cooking. |
| | I am not shamelessly promoting this book, I just happen to like it and use it a lot! "Standard C++ Bible" by Stevens and Walnum, published by Hungry Minds. This 800 page plus book is loaded with samples and comes with a CD-ROM containing all the samples and a nifty … |
| | Why are the standard header files in C++ so non-standard? Particularly iostream seems to be the most dialectal. Enough to make the whole language a mess to work with! |
| | I found this neat little GUI calculator program on the net. It uses a function called _gcvt(double val,int limit,string cBuf), which seems to be used to convert a double val to a string cBuf, with some formatting and limiting. I replaced it with sprintf(), but the output looks rather crude … |
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